Jane Norman reports: Iranian hackers are believed to be responsible for a cyber security breach and extortion attempt on Australia’s biggest defence exporter. Perth-based shipbuilder Austal earlier this month revealed an “unknown offender” had hacked into its computer systems, accessing staff email addresses and phone numbers as well as ship drawings and designs. Some of…
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Universities hacked in Zimbabwe, Canada
Mandla Ndlovu reports from Zimbabwe: Midlands State University was forced to postpone its Student Representative Council Elections after hackers breached the security system. In a statement posted on http://vote.msu.ac.zw/ the Registrar E Mupfiga said: This communication serves to inform you that the SRC elections which were scheduled for Thursday, 9 November 2018 and Thursday, 15…
Ca: Department Failed To Follow Directive Following Privacy Breach: Molloy
Oh …. (insert your preferred three-letter acronym). VOCM reports from St. John’s, NL: The privacy commissioner has found a government department not only committed a privacy breach, but that it failed to follow a subsequent directive from the commissioner. Donovan Molloy says the Department of Transportation and Works relocated a number of paper records to…
NZ: Bank staff exposed for using private information to stalk
Rob Stock reports: “Employee browsing” is a term for when bank staff access customers’ private information for their own uses. And Privacy Commissioner John Edwards says banks aren’t doing enough to prevent it. Following the publication on Monday of a review of bank conduct by the Financial Markets Authority and Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Edwards said banks must…
UK: Police probe into data breach at Crosshouse after staff accessed patient records
Paul Fisher reports: Police have launched an investigation after a number of patients have had their personal details accessed by a member of staff at Crosshouse Hospital. Those affected, believed to be mainly women, were notified that information, including their phone numbers and addresses, had been accessed and that the member of staff who breached their privacy…
AU: Police officer who leaked woman’s details claims self-incrimination at tribunal
This is one of those N=1 (small) breaches with serious consequences. Kristian Silva reports: A Queensland police officer has refused to answer questions at a tribunal, in fear of incriminating himself, about how a woman’s address was leaked to her allegedly violent ex-husband. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is taking legal…